The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

book Nothing was heard of the book, but
Mr.. Harbaum took immediate steps to have
| the certificates cancelled, and they would
| therefore prove worthless 10 the finder
! AS to how the book was lost Mr.. Har-
baum is of the opinion that it occurred in
this way. At the time he had on new
vest in which the tailor had placed the in
! side pocket on the right hand side instead
OF the left, to which he had been accus-
toned Having occasion to use some
money, he placed the book, as he thought,
in the pocket, but instead it was placed on
the side where there was no pock1
and it fell out unnotced. w.
order TO get the $4,000 he is required
| to give bond for double the amount lost,
and this will be done, and eventually the
SIS, 900 will be recovered in this way. The
bond is necessary to indemnify the Second
National Bank, on which the lost certifi-
Gates were issued, against any loss.
FLORIDA.
J. j.. Mott, Jr., has been made associate
editor of the Key West Democrat.
Bayard is greatly in need of a good physi-
clan, there being none in the vicinity.
Messrs Forrest and w. L. Lake are max
ing preparations to open a new store at
Woodbridge.
The County Commissioners pay $25 per
month for the rent of the Ravens Hall as
an armory for the DeLand Rifles.
Last Sunday Miss Eva Hall, of Tampa,
was taken very i'll with yellow fever. Her
fiance, w. II. G. Carruthers, was sent for,
and they were married, he standing by her
bedside.
Santa Rosa county is booked with another
foul murder, committed by the Adams
brothers on Oct. 9, upon stranger by the
name of Mclaughlin. They were all prompt
ly arrested and jailed
The Winter Park Improvement Company
has donated to Rollins College one acre of
land which will be cleared by the boys
and used as a base ball ground Two
hundred students are now enrolled at Roll
Inns College.
Santa Rosa county is sadly in need of a
paper. 1t was rumored some time ago that
Mr.. Albritan, editor of the DeFuniak Critic,
was going to revive the old Santa Rosa
Ne,0s, but so far there has nothing been
done in that direction.
Uncle "Epheraim" Taylor, one of the "old
timers" of Florida, died a few days since
near Hawkinsville. He came to Florida in
1S49 and helped to survey most of the gov
eminent land. He has killed as many deer
and bear as any man in the State
Capts Matt and Eugene O'Brien arrived
in Pensacola Wednesday, for the purpose of
inspecting the steamers Okoloosa and Echo,
at this point, and the Thomas Kiley, at Mill
view Capt. Matt, who is the Supervising
Inspector of the district, with his office at
New Orleans, is officiating in the stead of
the late Capt. Blakeslee, Inspector of Huls,
and will so continue until the vacancy oc-
casioned by Capt Blakeslees death shall
have hsen filed
The first steamer of the Morgan line from
New Orleans landed at Punta Gorda wharf
on Sunday last. 1t begins to look like bust
ness for that region to see steamers the size
of the Clinton blowing the waters Of that
harbor and discharging her freight from
the docks into the cars which were in wait
ing at the end of the dock. Col Bent,
Superintendent of the Charlotte Harbor
Division of the Florida Southern railroad,
met the steamer at Boca Grande and
piloted her into Punta Gorda. If any one
ever doubted that boats drawing ~ feet of
water could land at Punta Gorda that doubt
is now at rest.
Fed Mayo, of Bagdad, while passing
through John Diamonds peanut field, where
he had been gathering them, helped himself
freely, filling his pockets, and finding some
on top of stump gathered them in also
and ate them. After passing several such
patches conspicuously displayed the thought
struck him that the old gentleman had
placed them there for the purpose of poison
ing the crows, and the more he thought of
it the worse he felt, and finally decided that
he was badly poisoned, and struck bee
line for home He told his wife the condi-
ton be was in and what he had done, and
asked for melted lard and i'll the meantime
dispatched a courier to Mr.. Diamonds to
know if he had out poison for the crows,
but before the boy returned he had drank
about a quart of the lard, but gladly re-
ceived the false alarm"
Col. E. w. whistles, the Mayor of St
James City, on Pine Island, arrived in
Cleveland last Friday from Palatka, en-
route to Pine Island The Colonel was in
the best of spirits when he got off the train,
and he would still have held on to the genial
smile which wreathed his face, but when he
applied for passage on the steamer Alice
Howard he was informed by Capt White
that he could only allow him to take pas
sage as far as the county line of Lee county,
at which point he would have to disembark,
owing to the quarantine regulations estab-
lished in said county. As the county line is
in the middle of Charlotte harbor, several
miles from land, and the water is about fif-
teen feet deep, the Colonel refused to take
passage. Very persuasive arguments over
the wires to the Health Officers at Fort
Meyers had no effect. No person coming
from south of Jacksonville is allowed to
enter Lee county.